The Changing Functions of Citation: From Knowledge Networking to Academic Cash-Value

Autor/in	Burbules, Nicholas C.
Titel	The Changing Functions of Citation: From Knowledge Networking to Academic Cash-Value
Quelle	In: Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 51 (2015) 6, S.716-726 (11 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0030-9230
DOI	10.1080/00309230.2015.1051553
Schlagwörter	Citations (References); Research; Validity; Social Networks; Commercialization; Rhetoric; Citation Analysis; Reliability; Ethics + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Citations; Zitat; Forschung; Gültigkeit; Social network; Soziales Netzwerk; Rhetorik; Citation; Zitatenanalyse; Reliabilität; Ethik
Abstract	This essay reviews the changing functions, and effects, of citation systems in scholarly research as they move from a range of uses primarily oriented around knowledge networking and epistemic validation, to their use as a set of metrics oriented around evaluating and rewarding certain kinds of academic performance (e.g. "impact factors"). It is argued that this shift of emphasis has a distorting effect on the uses of citations, and that the more important these metrics become, the more distorting it is. Specifically, it is argued that rewarding certain kinds of citational practices leads to "gaming" the system: this makes the use of these metrics actually less reliable--and in some cases counterproductive--and leads to what in the author's view are self-serving and sometimes unethical behaviours. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01